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“But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is...”
“Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.”
“Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerle...”
“Sometimes you dont know what youre looking for until you find it, Harry answered. Its a methodology.”
“. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldnt possibly want this kind of life. But maybe thats not true. Maybe they dont want to live like other peop...”
“There was a gay man who lived nearby when I was growing up, Harry recounted. He must have been forty or so, lived alone, and everyone in the neighbourhood knew he was gay. In the winter we threw sn...”
“Bjarne Mller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our 'accursed nature'. That's why we always end up on our own. I don't know. I lik...”
“Listen, I am someone who had chosen to earn their daily bread killing other people. I'm inclined to give people a bit of leeway when it comes to their actions and decisions.”
“I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running on...”
“Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and wor...”
“Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to adm...”
“Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.”
“I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes t...”
“For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and...”
“You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.”
“Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.”
“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
“in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible”
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
“And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.”
